Stupid iTunes error!

OK, so i was going through my pictures in microsoft picture viewer resizing everything. and up pops an iTunes error message….THAT WILL NOT CLICK AWAY!!!

 2 minutes later, after cliking it a million times and trying to force quit the program…. I realize….

……..wait for it……

….you’ll see how brilliant I am…

iTunes isn’t open and that was a picture of an error message i sent to my husband last week. 

   

Finally organized for schooling!

 

This year we are starting Kindergarten! According to the PS Eli is too young for Kindergarten (he doesn’t turn 5 until April). We don’t want to pay for him to go to preschool, so we are going to homeschool an extra year of Kindy. We will then apply him to the Natomas Charter school down the road. It is a performing arts charter school that I think he would do great at.

Back to the curriculum…we are using Confessions of a Homeschooler’s K4 curriculum. I am using 90% of it. The only parts I’m not following are the music/art and reading. Eli likes different music from what is requested and I have other different art projects for him. We are using How to Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.

Each day I fill the folders with what is to be done. Once we are done with the school day (usually by 9am! since little man wakes at 6.) I refill the folders with the next day’s work. SUPER easy. Here are the subjects we have:

Handwriting

Sight Words

Mathematics

Reading

Bible

Music/Art (3x/wk)

Science (2x/wk)

History (2x/wk)

I’ve also added 13more hanging files in the back for all the paperwork I would like to keep over the years. I got this idea from iheart Organizing. In each file she has a cover sheet that looks like this:

Isn’t is AMAZING?? She has the most colorful printouts ever! So, each of these is in a file and each year I place Eli’s picture on the sheet and fill out the information. That way through the year, I have a place to put our favorite art projects, writings and anything else we feel needs to be saved. I plan on doing this when Charlie start school as well…although she has a few years as she is only 1.5!

Surgery #5

On August 30th, Eli had another surgery on his cleft lip/palate. 

They took away some of the thickness in his nostril and re-opened his nasal cavity. The surgery last time left him with a tiny opening to breathe through. That was 2 years ago. I had NO idea that he had a hard time breathing through his nose. He would always wake in the middle of the night complaining about his nose, mostly when he had a runny nose, and I would get frustrated because…

“IF HE WOULD ONLY LEARN HOW TO BLOW HIS NOSE!!! “

I said this several times.

 

(go ahead and pass me the mother of the year award)

They also revised the scar on his lip and the space between his nose and lip. They also took a piece of cartlidge out of his left ear and placed it at the base of his nostril so that it wouldn’t collapse. Therefore, he has an incision behind his left ear to get skin to cover the part they took in the front of the ear. Poor baby.

Without further ado…pictures in the hospital.

His nurse, Kathy…which he refused to say…said her favorite color was green as well!

Here, she is explaining the O2 monitor. She said that it was like a little hug. I pointed at him and said “E.T., phone home.” He looked at me like I was crazy.

We had a little surprise for him…we bought him a Leapster Explorer. He was beyond excited! We also bought him the Ben 10 Ultimate Alien game….which was a HUGE hit.

Here are some after he got his “happy juice” to make him calmer. When they took him back the anesthesiologist was awesome. Eli started to cry, but the anesthesiologist raised his bed and asked Eli to hold on to the invisible steering wheel. Then he asked him to step on the gas pedal. When Eli did that, the bed started to move so he got to drive himself into the OR.

Here he is when we first saw him after surgery. My poor little guy.

I can’t believe how much he has grown. This was his first surgery at 2.5 months!

Warning:

Bellow this text are some pictures of his incisions.

Here he is after we got home. He felt awful, but he was back to his normal self the next day.

I can’t believe how GROWN UP he looks in this next picture. he looks WAY older than 4yrs 4mo!

He is my brave little man.

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Busy, busy, busy

I hate that I haven’t been blogging as much. So much has been going on. My husband has been in and out of the hospital all year (surgeries and sickness), we moved and my son had surgery!

My husband has been having trouble with kidney stones. He is a paraplegic and will always have issues with bacteria and stones unfortunately; that is just how is body is right now. We’ve been battling this and having surgeries for it for the last year and a half. Jan 4th, 2010 He was supposed to start work at a new job…well, that didn’t happen because I gave birth to our baby girl. Exactly one week later, dh went into the hospital and was there for one week. Summer of 2010 he went back in to have another surgery. Then this year he has been having more trouble with more stones and more surgeries and blood infections and sores and lymphedema of his right leg that was CAUSED by too much IV fluids. Because he isn’t ambulatory, he can’t circulate all the fluid in his legs so water was just collecting. This has caused permanent lymphedema in his leg.

This year, well 3 weeks ago, we moved back to an apartment complex we used to live in. We feel much safer here. I’m also excited that I have less space to clean!

Our son had another cleft lip and palate surgery 1.5 weeks ago. He is doing very well and is back to his normal 4.5 year old self!

I have a used NOOK for sale

I’m asking $65ppd. It is used. Works GREAT. Comes with USB cord. The back rubber-ish part turned grey-ish for some reason. I don’t know how that happened. It was on a shelf for about a month. I picked it up and it was grey. The back can be replaces with a different color, or covered with a skin or NOOK cover. 

Eli has an upcoming surgery.

*sigh* yet another surgery is coming up for Eli. This will be his 5th surgery and he is only 4yrs 4 months. He will be having a revision done to his nose. The last time it was done it didn’t heal very well. Now his nostril and nasal cavity on the left size is smaller than the  eraser on a pencil.

We are using a different surgeon this time. We switched to Kaiser this year and so far we have been very happy with them. Eli seems to like his new surgeon. He never did like his old surgeon. He was a very hyper doctor; I think it was too much for Eli.

i think I’ve become numb to the surgeries as I am not nervous anymore. After the second surgery I stopped being nervous before hand. I know he will do well, and has never had issues with anesthesia. I feel comfortable with his new surgeon. Though, I don’t know the nurses.

He has his pre-op appointment on the 25th and his surgery on the 30th.

Please pray that everything goes smoothly.

Sexual Healing by Jeff

Something I should have heard as a teen. What an amazing young man.

John 8

To Throw the Stone

 ^1-2 Jesus went across to Mount Olives, but he was soon back in the Temple again. Swarms of people came to him. He sat down and taught them. ^3-6The religion scholars and Pharisees led in a woman who had been caught in an act of adultery. They stood her in plain sight of everyone and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught red-handed in the act of adultery. Moses, in the Law, gives orders to stone such persons. What do you say?” They were trying to trap him into saying something incriminating so they could bring charges against him.

 ^6-8Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger in the dirt. They kept at him, badgering him. He straightened up and said, “The sinless one among you, go first: Throw the stone.” Bending down again, he wrote some more in the dirt.

 ^9-10Hearing that, they walked away, one after another, beginning with the oldest. The woman was left alone. Jesus stood up and spoke to her. “Woman, where are they? Does no one condemn you?”

 ¹¹“No one, Master.”

   ”Neither do I,” said Jesus. “Go on your way. From now on, don’t sin.”

You’re Missing God in All This

 ¹²Jesus once again addressed them: “I am the world’s Light. No one who follows me stumbles around in the darkness. I provide plenty of light to live in.”

 ¹³The Pharisees objected, “All we have is your word on this. We need more than this to go on.”

 ^14-18Jesus replied, “You’re right that you only have my word. But you can depend on it being true. I know where I’ve come from and where I go next. You don’t know where I’m from or where I’m headed. You decide according to what you can see and touch. I don’t make judgments like that. But even if I did, my judgment would be true because I wouldn’t make it out of the narrowness of my experience but in the largeness of the One who sent me, the Father. That fulfills the conditions set down in God’s Law: that you can count on the testimony of two witnesses. And that is what you have: You have my word and you have the word of the Father who sent me.”

 ¹⁹They said, “Where is this so-called Father of yours?”

   Jesus said, “You’re looking right at me and you don’t see me. How do you expect to see the Father? If you knew me, you would at the same time know the Father.”

 ²⁰He gave this speech in the Treasury while teaching in the Temple. No one arrested him because his time wasn’t yet up.

 ²¹Then he went over the same ground again. “I’m leaving and you are going to look for me, but you’re missing God in this and are headed for a dead end. There is no way you can come with me.”

 ²²The Jews said, “So, is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means by ‘You can’t come with me’?”

 ^23-24Jesus said, “You’re tied down to the mundane; I’m in touch with what is beyond your horizons. You live in terms of what you see and touch. I’m living on other terms. I told you that you were missing God in all this. You’re at a dead end. If you won’t believe I am who I say I am, you’re at the dead end of sins. You’re missing God in your lives.”

 ^25-26They said to him, “Just who are you anyway?”

   Jesus said, “What I’ve said from the start. I have so many things to say that concern you, judgments to make that affect you, but if you don’t accept the trustworthiness of the One who commanded my words and acts, none of it matters. That is who you are questioning—not me but the One who sent me.”

 ^27-29They still didn’t get it, didn’t realize that he was referring to the Father. So Jesus tried again. “When you raise up the Son of Man, then you will know who I am—that I’m not making this up, but speaking only what the Father taught me. The One who sent me stays with me. He doesn’t abandon me. He sees how much joy I take in pleasing him.”

 ³⁰When he put it in these terms, many people decided to believe.

If the Son Sets You Free

 ^31-32Then Jesus turned to the Jews who had claimed to believe in him. “If you stick with this, living out what I tell you, you are my disciples for sure. Then you will experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will free you.”

 ³³Surprised, they said, “But we’re descendants of Abraham. We’ve never been slaves to anyone. How can you say, ‘The truth will free you’?”

 ^34-38Jesus said, “I tell you most solemnly that anyone who chooses a life of sin is trapped in a dead-end life and is, in fact, a slave. A slave is a transient, who can’t come and go at will. The Son, though, has an established position, the run of the house. So if the Son sets you free, you are free through and through. I know you are Abraham’s descendants. But I also know that you are trying to kill me because my message hasn’t yet penetrated your thick skulls. I’m talking about things I have seen while keeping company with the Father, and you just go on doing what you have heard from your father.”

 ^39-41They were indignant. “Our father is Abraham!”

   Jesus said, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would have been doing the things Abraham did. And yet here you are trying to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth he got straight from God! Abraham never did that sort of thing. You persist in repeating the works of your father.”

   They said, “We’re not bastards. We have a legitimate father: the one and only God.”

 ^42-47“If God were your father,” said Jesus, “you would love me, for I came from God and arrived here. I didn’t come on my own. He sent me. Why can’t you understand one word I say? Here’s why: You can’t handle it. You’re from your father, the Devil, and all you want to do is please him. He was a killer from the very start. He couldn’t stand the truth because there wasn’t a shred of truth in him. When the Liar speaks, he makes it up out of his lying nature and fills the world with lies. I arrive on the scene, tell you the plain truth, and you refuse to have a thing to do with me. Can any one of you convict me of a single misleading word, a single sinful act? But if I’m telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? Anyone on God’s side listens to God’s words. This is why you’re not listening—because you’re not on God’s side.”

I Am Who I Am

 ⁴⁸The Jews then said, “That clinches it. We were right all along when we called you a Samaritan and said you were crazy—demon-possessed!”

 ^49-51Jesus said, “I’m not crazy. I simply honor my Father, while you dishonor me. I am not trying to get anything for myself. God intends something gloriously grand here and is making the decisions that will bring it about. I say this with absolute confidence. If you practice what I’m telling you, you’ll never have to look death in the face.”

 ^52-53At this point the Jews said, “Now we know you’re crazy. Abraham died. The prophets died. And you show up saying, ‘If you practice what I’m telling you, you’ll never have to face death, not even a taste.’ Are you greater than Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you think you are!”

 ^54-56Jesus said, “If I turned the spotlight on myself, it wouldn’t amount to anything. But my Father, the same One you say is your Father, put me here at this time and place of splendor. You haven’t recognized him in this. But I have. If I, in false modesty, said I didn’t know what was going on, I would be as much of a liar as you are. But I do know, and I am doing what he says. Abraham—your ‘father’—with jubilant faith looked down the corridors of history and saw my day coming. He saw it and cheered.”

 ⁵⁷The Jews said, “You’re not even fifty years old—and Abraham saw you?”

 ⁵⁸“Believe me,” said Jesus, “I am who I am long before Abraham was anything.”

 ⁵⁹That did it—pushed them over the edge. They picked up rocks to throw at him. But Jesus slipped away, getting out of the Temple.